You can buy new AAA games. Be /patientgamers. Just wait a few weeks or months after release and they almost always go on sale when companies want to boost server numbers to make quarterly reports look good. I haven’t paid release price for any AAA game in years. And it should go without saying: Do not preorder!
AAA games rarely go on sale anymore, Dragon Quest Builders 2 is like 7 years old, and still 50 bucks, and last sale it went down to 25. 25 for a 7 year old game is just brutal absurdity.
and I just use that as an example, its the same almost across the entire board.
The only saving grace in gaming right now is indie games. Which are typically affordable.
Literally BF6 is on sale right now for 40% off. It was 50% off on some locations on Black Friday. It was 30% off 4 months ago. It was released early October. That’s 4 sales in 7 months for a AAA game.
I’ve bought Stray, Cyberpunk 2077, GTA, Elite: Dangeorus, Borderlands series, and many others all on sale and even a couple games for free.
I can’t help it if your particular games don’t get discounted, but telling me AAA games rarely do is completely wrong.
Yeah, and you are conveniently skipping over the most relevant part.
Lowest price history for cyberpunk 2077 is 20 bucks. 20 bucks for a 5 year old game is ridiculously overpriced.
Grand Theft Auto never goes under 15 dollars, which is over priced for how old the game is.
I personally wouldnt consider borderlands AAA games, but congratulations, you found the one game that had an actual legitimate sale and age related price drop with Elite: Dangerous, with the base games lowest sale price recorded as 2 bucks. WIth it currently on sale for 5. for a 11 year old game. Which is what the prices should be for an old game, and what all the other games should be doing once they are out of their content window.
Also, you don’t have to be so goddamn dismissive and hostile. I gave an example of my argument. Did you expect me to spend 3 weeks researching so i could produce a scientific paper detailing every game that is over priced?
There was nothing hostile in what I said. Maybe you don’t like being proven wrog? I didn’t expect anything of you much less a hyperbolic research paper, but nonetheless you chose hyperbole and shuffled the goalposts instead of actually continuing the discussion. I never said when I bought the games, but convenient of you to arbitrarily decide how old a game is before it’s not worth it for you. Nonetheless they’re on sale by your own admission, so that blows your “rarely” out of the water while you ignore BF6 being repeatedly on sale. But I suppose you’ll make excuses about that too?
will you both pull your heads out of your asses. both of you are correct. yes some stuff is on sale but it is also true that games are more expensive in general so even with sales… a more modern game will still be more expensive than a pre-2014 game (arbitrary year chosen). and RTA… you were pretty hostile so don’t deny that part. just because you personally think you aren’t hostile doesn’t mean that everyone agrees with you on that point. and while some games are consistently on sale… cherry picking a few games and saying “see game is on sale” doesn’t = not rare to see a sale. only about 60% of all games go on sale (and most of those are filled with micro transactions that make up the cost). there are less modern games receiving price reductions as they age but this is mostly corporate greed.
Straight up nonsense. Complain all you want, but if the cost of games even approached parity with inflation they would be FAR more expensive than they are right now.
you really have stuck your head in the fucking sand haven’t you.
the average “$60” game in reality costs about $200 once you add in all of the dlcs that are 1/10th the size of the game but cost half the price of the main game. or think of bethesda… they release the same bugs in all their games and never fix them. relying on players to mod in fixes… then they bundle that fix into stuff like creation club dlcs (read paid mods) and SELL it as a minor dlc. they sell the fucking patch to fix their game… and they don’t even actually create the patch.
every “free” game is now either subscription required, subscribe to win, or a gacha cash game.
and don’t get me started on micro transactions and the mobile game industry… lets just say… more and more of them are subscribe for $10 a week for ad free experience (with so many ads that you literally can’t play the game without the ad free subscription).
but please do stick your head in the sand like the average “live in mommy’s basement, wears a double lightning armband to parties, low life incel” who refuses to change his narrow minded views simply because doing so would be admitting you were wrong… which in your book is a sin worthy of eternal damnation.
You can buy new AAA games. Be /patientgamers. Just wait a few weeks or months after release and they almost always go on sale when companies want to boost server numbers to make quarterly reports look good. I haven’t paid release price for any AAA game in years. And it should go without saying: Do not preorder!
Yoshi’s Crafted World was the first, last and only preorder I’ve ever done.
Brother, this isnt 2004.
AAA games rarely go on sale anymore, Dragon Quest Builders 2 is like 7 years old, and still 50 bucks, and last sale it went down to 25. 25 for a 7 year old game is just brutal absurdity.
and I just use that as an example, its the same almost across the entire board.
The only saving grace in gaming right now is indie games. Which are typically affordable.
Literally BF6 is on sale right now for 40% off. It was 50% off on some locations on Black Friday. It was 30% off 4 months ago. It was released early October. That’s 4 sales in 7 months for a AAA game.
I’ve bought Stray, Cyberpunk 2077, GTA, Elite: Dangeorus, Borderlands series, and many others all on sale and even a couple games for free.
I can’t help it if your particular games don’t get discounted, but telling me AAA games rarely do is completely wrong.
Yeah, and you are conveniently skipping over the most relevant part.
Lowest price history for cyberpunk 2077 is 20 bucks. 20 bucks for a 5 year old game is ridiculously overpriced.
Grand Theft Auto never goes under 15 dollars, which is over priced for how old the game is.
I personally wouldnt consider borderlands AAA games, but congratulations, you found the one game that had an actual legitimate sale and age related price drop with Elite: Dangerous, with the base games lowest sale price recorded as 2 bucks. WIth it currently on sale for 5. for a 11 year old game. Which is what the prices should be for an old game, and what all the other games should be doing once they are out of their content window.
Also, you don’t have to be so goddamn dismissive and hostile. I gave an example of my argument. Did you expect me to spend 3 weeks researching so i could produce a scientific paper detailing every game that is over priced?
There was nothing hostile in what I said. Maybe you don’t like being proven wrog? I didn’t expect anything of you much less a hyperbolic research paper, but nonetheless you chose hyperbole and shuffled the goalposts instead of actually continuing the discussion. I never said when I bought the games, but convenient of you to arbitrarily decide how old a game is before it’s not worth it for you. Nonetheless they’re on sale by your own admission, so that blows your “rarely” out of the water while you ignore BF6 being repeatedly on sale. But I suppose you’ll make excuses about that too?
will you both pull your heads out of your asses. both of you are correct. yes some stuff is on sale but it is also true that games are more expensive in general so even with sales… a more modern game will still be more expensive than a pre-2014 game (arbitrary year chosen). and RTA… you were pretty hostile so don’t deny that part. just because you personally think you aren’t hostile doesn’t mean that everyone agrees with you on that point. and while some games are consistently on sale… cherry picking a few games and saying “see game is on sale” doesn’t = not rare to see a sale. only about 60% of all games go on sale (and most of those are filled with micro transactions that make up the cost). there are less modern games receiving price reductions as they age but this is mostly corporate greed.
Are you the thread nanny?
Straight up nonsense. Complain all you want, but if the cost of games even approached parity with inflation they would be FAR more expensive than they are right now.
you really have stuck your head in the fucking sand haven’t you.
the average “$60” game in reality costs about $200 once you add in all of the dlcs that are 1/10th the size of the game but cost half the price of the main game. or think of bethesda… they release the same bugs in all their games and never fix them. relying on players to mod in fixes… then they bundle that fix into stuff like creation club dlcs (read paid mods) and SELL it as a minor dlc. they sell the fucking patch to fix their game… and they don’t even actually create the patch.
every “free” game is now either subscription required, subscribe to win, or a gacha cash game.
and don’t get me started on micro transactions and the mobile game industry… lets just say… more and more of them are subscribe for $10 a week for ad free experience (with so many ads that you literally can’t play the game without the ad free subscription).
but please do stick your head in the sand like the average “live in mommy’s basement, wears a double lightning armband to parties, low life incel” who refuses to change his narrow minded views simply because doing so would be admitting you were wrong… which in your book is a sin worthy of eternal damnation.
Holy strawman of projection, Batman! I do believe TransNeko is a lost cause, activate block function.
I wouldn’t consider the main Dragon Quest series to be AAA, let alone the spin-off builders game…